DeMoFs: Multi-objective Feature Selection Using Binary Differential Evolution (BDE) Optimization on Breast Cancer Gene Expression Data
摘要
The DNA microarray allows for the simultaneous measurement of thousands of genes in one experiment. Microarray-derived gene expression data is highly dimensional, making its analysis difficult due to the well-known curse of dimensionality [16]. Because many genes in these datasets are unrelated to illness, efficient feature selection is necessary to enhance the precision and readability of predictive models. Binary Differential Evolution (BDE) with a newly developed mutation operator has been recently used for biclustering [3]. This work proposes a novel feature selection strategy based on multi-objective optimization to identify a reduced subset of significant genes from breast cancer microarray data. Extensive experiments on a breast cancer dataset demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed technique in terms of classification accuracy.